@ScaryB

But do Zygons not revert to their original form if the person they’re imitating dies?

Well, if the Eighth Doctor Audios are now canon – not necessarily.

@ScaryB Yes- The graveyard Cybers were refered to as Newborns by the Doctor which reinforces why I think
they aren’t ‘completed” enough to be re-booted into the nethersphere
@Bluesqueakpip I have a post a bit way up thread about Osgood- I had this notion that it might be Missy that
wants to bring her back as part of some ‘Master” plan. Missy…[Read more]

@ScaryB I guess I’m differentiating between those Cybermen that we saw in the nethersphere and the
grave yard Cybers – to me the graveyard bunch are [and I cant explain why entirely] as low ranking
privates and the Cybers that were in the nethersphere as higher ranking “chosen” as in the
episodes where we saw Missy choosing certain people, Danny…[Read more]

@scaryB

Thanks for that link. It is much more detailed (and wasn’t he on funny form). Very interesting to hear him confirm how they seed disinformation into the show.

“Whenever I arrange skulduggery, no bugger ever notices. I had [Michelle Gomez] say she was a Random Access Neural Interface – which spells Rani – and we thought ‘everyone’s bou…

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Sorry that last post was for @ScaryB !! big oops !

@ScaryB     Thank you! Such a powerful song. I have a June Tabor version, and I have literally never been able to sing it to completion. I choke up every time. And guess what? I’ve just done it again.

“Do not stand…” I knew the poem but not the song. Lovely, and what a beautiful voice the singer has.

Here’s another by Bogle (maybe you had this…[Read more]

@JanetteB, @scaryB, et al,

Re: the question of civilizing the Guardian blog–forget it! It is beyond redemption. Remember the reason why we (but mostly our excellent emperor @Craig) set up this site in the first place: to find a haven for civilized discussion. Nothing has changed. Or, if anything has changed, this site has grown and matured, and…[Read more]

I fear that you are all right and CiF is beyond hope. Reading it depresses me but I feel bad about letting the trolls have the final say and abandoning Dan Martin. The trolls now speak publicly for fandom. IT is a bad state of afairs. I especially feel for Moffat, Capaldi and the other actors who are bagged constantly and there is clearly a…[Read more]

So now I have read through all the posts some comments,

I have to disagree with @phMO and others who have remarked about a “lack of fun” this series. I have found it to have many LOL moments. The style of humour is different to that of the M.S. era. It is juxtaposed against the more sombre overall tone of the series but those moments are there…[Read more]

@ScaryB  Re the temporal loop.  The time factor is not, in itself, necessarily a problem since, as you say, Missy clearly has a Tardis or some other method of getting around in time.  It was the paradoxical nature of the loop which bothered me.  Missy could not have escaped from the time locked time war without events requiring the int…[Read more]

When I watched yesterday evening I was completely engrossed in the story, disbelief not so much suspended as tied up and gagged in another room, so the annoying little inner critic who sometimes interrupts to point out the implausible or illogical was silent (the anaesthetic effect of a generous infusion of Cotes-du-Rhone probably helped also to…[Read more]

Oh, and I loved Clara’s line “I wasn’t very good at it, but I did love you.”

@ScaryB      I had the impression that Clara was about to tell that Doctor that she couldn’t travel anymore because she had adopted the boy. And that’s what she meant by “Danny and I will be just fine,” or whatever the exact words were.

And yes, there is still the m…[Read more]

@scaryB and @pedant

Though I should probably apologise to you two, because you proved to be a lot closer to the truth about Danny than I was…

I’m with you @ScaryB – Gallifrey is out there, just not where Missy said, and, as you say, the Doctor has returned there in the TARDIS with Clara without knowing.

I’m also sold on Clara as Missy and the Doctor’s daughter 🙂

Certainly I’m still wondering whether Clara is the Doctor’s progeny – he loves her the way one loves one’s child -…[Read more]

@ScaryB

I still think you’re making the mistake of seeing Danny thro Clara’s lies.

No, I think it’s that I just don’t like him. I understood where he was coming from emotionally in those Cybermen scenes tonight – but to me, there was an awful lot of ‘revenge’ (towards both Clara and the Doctor) going on. As @DanMartinUK said – pas…[Read more]

@ScaryB –

So the dead can now rest in peace, and we can relax that we won’t actually feel what our bodies are going through after death

Did somebody say that? I think I missed it. What makes you say this? I hope you’re right.

(Although, actually, in the Doctor Who ‘universe’ I suppose it doesn’t matter much, as most characters get disintegrated a…[Read more]

@ScaryB

Hope everyone who called poor Danny a manipulative bully feels suitably contrite now!!

No, I still think he was a manipulative bully with a bit of a nasty streak. 😀 Think about it; he really made Clara and the Doctor suffer, didn’t he? Especially the Doctor, for the terrible crime of being someone Clara loved more. Talk about…[Read more]

@nerys Welcome! Is that nerys after the wonderful character in Deep Space Nine?

@JanetteB I suspect I might join you with the tissues

@ScaryB A big swig of TARDIS red seems in order 🙂

Cybermen ahoy! Good luck everyone!

“ha ha ha!” are the exact words @ScaryB I squawked when I saw your reply to @theKrynoidMan ! Excellent!

Always liked Blondie though only listen randomly nowadays.

Only a few hours before the episode, and I may have to watch it tomorrow morning!

so… some songs that I found on my hard drive based on Death.
Annoyingly by bands we’ve had plenty…[Read more]

And @ScaryB:    They might not always be to our personal liking, but it’s worth giving the writers/directors/producers etc a chance to tell the story they want to tell before making the call.   I was trying to say this. You said it better.   🙂